Phlebotomist

Abbeywell Surgery; East Oakley; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 19,000; Part time

Job summary

Abbeywell Surgery is seeking a part-time Phlebotomist to join our two-site team at Nightingale and Abbey Mead. You will venepuncture, label and prepare specimens, and record results in patient notes, ensuring accuracy and patient safety.

The role requires IT proficiency to manage your own clinic and maintain documentation. You may also undertake domiciliary sample collection as needed, supporting GP practices across sites.

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent).
• Qualified in phlebotomy.
• Full UK driving licence and access to own car.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Understand policies on equality, information governance, data protection and confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Perform venepuncture and label/prepare samples for collection.
• Process and manage laboratory samples requested by GPs/nurses.
• Request pathology tests as required.
• Record accurate clinical notes in patient records after each sample.
• Work within your scope of practice and refer to nurses or GP when needed.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with colleagues and patients.
• Chaperoning duties as required.

Skills

Phlebotomy

IT literacy

Communication

Time management

Teamwork

Education

GCSE level (or equivalent)

Qualified in phlebotomy

Tools

Microsoft Office

EMIS

Job description

POST TITLE: Phlebotomist

BASE: Abbeywell Surgery Nightingale & Abbey Mead sites

WORKING HOURS: Part time

SALARY: Depending on experience

REPORTING TO: Practice Nurse Co-ordinator

ROLE OVERVIEW

Abbeywell Surgery is looking for an experienced Phlebotomist to join our friendly and supportive clinical team. You will assist the team in the provision of prescribed patient care, ensuring that samples are carefully and accurately labelled and prepared for collection.

You will need to be IT proficient as you must be able to manage your own clinic and record information in the patients notes after every sample taken.

This is a permanent position, part-time hours. You will work across our two sites and, if needed, will need to take domiciliary samples.

ABOUT ABBEYWELL SURGERY

Abbeywell Surgery is a friendly and forward-thinking GP Practice located in the heart of Romsey, a beautiful market town in Hampshire. We serve a registered patient population of approximately 17,000 over two practice sites Nightingale and Abbey Mead.

We are committed to investing in the GPs of the future and are a training and research practice. We have 6 GP Partners and an experienced and supportive nursing team who aim to deliver high quality care to patients with support from a strong non-clinical team. We work closely with our neighbouring GP Practices as part of the Romsey, North Baddesley & Eastleigh Primary Care Network (PCN).

• Competitive salary
• 5 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata)
• Additional 1 day birthday annual leave
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Staff thank you scheme and wellbeing events

MAIN DUTIES

• Venepuncture
• Processing and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/nurses
• Requesting pathology tests
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to nurses or GP
• Excellent communication skills
• INR* if trained
• Chaperoning duties

The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may be subject to change as deemed necessary.

DATA PROTECTION ACT

We are all expected to be aware of the Data Protection Act 2018 and to follow the local Codes of Practice to ensure appropriate action is taken to safeguard confidential information.

HEALTH & SAFETY

We all have a responsibility for health and safety, risk assessment and workplace inspections, and you will be expected to take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of others.

You will also be expected to co-operate with your colleagues to ensure that statutory regulations, policies, codes of practice and departmental safety procedures are adhered to, and to attend any training programmes that we consider to be relevant.

INFECTION CONTROL

We all have a responsibility to make sure that Infection Control remains a priority in terms of attention and resources. If you work in a role that provides direct patient care, then youll be expected to follow our policies and procedures which are designed to reduce the risk of passing on the organisms that can cause infections.

We all, collectively and individually, have a duty of care to follow best practice and adhere to any guidelines which underpin the management of Infection Control.

CONFIDENTIALITY

We all have a responsibility to make sure that we dont disclose any information of a confidential nature relating to the services we provide or in respect of any service user, client or third party. This applies both during and after your employment.

EQUALITY & DIVERSITY

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Behaving in a manner that welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

DATA QUALITY

We are all responsible for making sure that our data and electronic records are updated, accurate, relevant, reliable, and completed in line with our record keeping standards and policies.

TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

The post holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, annual Appraisal including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development;
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience working as part of a team supporting others

Desirable

• Previous experience of work in general practice

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office software eg: Outlook, Word, Excel
• Understand policies and legislation with regards to equality & diversity, Information Governance & data protection, and confidentiality
• Basic understanding of medical terminology and patient pathways

Desirable

• Clinical system EMIS

Skills

Essential

• Basic skills operating IT systems and computers
• Able to communicate effectively in a sensitive manner
• Personal initiative and ability to prioritise own workload

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent)
• Qualified in phlebotomy
• Full UK driving licence and access to own car

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.